Its difficult to see where DNA could be analyzed on Mars unless we had already infected it with our microbes. Its rather annoying that ppl are using exobiology funding to fund DNA sequencing projects, its not likely that would be at all useful on mars.

Animatronik:Its difficult to see where DNA could be analyzed on Mars unless we had already infected it with our microbes. Its rather annoying that ppl are using exobiology funding to fund DNA sequencing projects, its not likely that would be at all useful on mars.

Do you have any evidence that life uses something other then DNA? Plus there have always been a few who think that microbes could get smacked from one planet to another since certain ones could make such a journey and be theoretically viable.

There is no evidence that life on earth originated anywhere else but certain diatoms in certain rocks could indicate Hadean era life. Mars back then was as habitable and a lot of matter was being knocked around the system.

Quantum Apostrophe:BumpInTheNight: Downloading and then printing a product that extends people's lives? Wait, wait did anyone else just hear that? It sounded like a pin getting heated to the point of popping.

Wake me when this gets to the point of even a rendering, not just a throw-away comment from a loon.

This article is so full of hype and ventilating nerdery it's back to bed for me.

What's the hype and ventilating nerdery? The idea of analyzing DNA, or the idea of synthesizing it? The odds of water-bearing planets? The fact that his motorcycle wouldn't start?

Not one of these things seem strange. The motorcycle was a BMW, after all.

starsrift:Quantum Apostrophe: BumpInTheNight: Downloading and then printing a product that extends people's lives? Wait, wait did anyone else just hear that? It sounded like a pin getting heated to the point of popping.

Wake me when this gets to the point of even a rendering, not just a throw-away comment from a loon.

This article is so full of hype and ventilating nerdery it's back to bed for me.

What's the hype and ventilating nerdery? The idea of analyzing DNA, or the idea of synthesizing it? The odds of water-bearing planets? The fact that his motorcycle wouldn't start?

Not one of these things seem strange. The motorcycle was a BMW, after all.